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  • Best Laid Plans, And So On, Amirite?

    I find out about a job today. The anticipation is terrible, really. If I don’t get it I don’t know what I’ll do. If I get it I don’t know what I will do.
    The biggest lessons I’ve understood I have to learn in this city are not entirely what I thought they […]

  • Make a note: eschew pedantry!

    Oh, poor Pygmalion, whom no woman could satisfy, what trick have the gods played on you?   The statue you created, of perfect form, of wonderful mind, of noble soul, into which the gods have breathed their holy inspiration, come to life around your fingers, blood and flesh and erstwhile clay.  Did you decide too hastily […]

  • A Close Reading of the The First Half-Hour of Iron Man: Unfolding Signifiers

    The audience are not fascinated by ideas of transhumanism, exo-skeletons, robotic implantation, the possibilities of technology.  The audience are not fans of comic books.  The audience do not have an interest in the actual paths and shape of international arms trade.
    What we like is gadgets, fast machines, babes, sleekness; we like James Bondses and heroes […]

  • Decisions!

    This morning my back hurts and I am working and I find myself thinking about how Hemingway wrote: standing, at a lectern, with blue ink.  So many things about his style begin to make sense, when you think about that.
    because what then?  maybe i’d lose my personal life.  Maybe I’d starve to death.  Maybe the […]

May

This is the archive for May, 2008.

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